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ntwerp has stepped up checks on ships that have sailed in the vicinity of Japan to avert the risk of radioactive contamination from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, the Belgian port said Wednesday. Ships arriving in Antwerp, Europe's second largest port after Rotterdam in The Netherlands and among the world's 15 biggest, are required to present a l...
A NEW container terminal at Cambodian's Phnom Penh Autonomous Port, to be built with Chinese government's US$28.2 million concessional loan, recently held ground-breaking ceremony, Xinhua reports. The terminal is located on the Mekong River 30 kilometres east of Phnom Penh city. It will have two 300-metre-long and 22-metre-wide quay with four 5,000-ton...
BAD weather expected off the coast of tsunami-struck Japan has prompted German carrier Hamburg Sud, rated the world's 13th biggest, to say it may cancel port calls at short notice to Tokyo and Yokohama for fear of nuclear radiation. "Hamburg Sud is acting according to safeguarding the well-being of the seamen and, at the same time ensuring Japan is not c...
HONG KONG's Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has posted a 12 per cent year-on-year net profit increase to HK$11.6 billion (US$205.7 million) for 2010, drawn on revenues of HK$37.7 billion, an increase of 13 per cent. Container throughput in 2010 was a record 75 million TEU, up 15 per cent on its 2009 volume, the biggest increase in three years. Also cont...
The Port of Qingdao has announced its target for the national 12th five-year plan period, raising its cargo throughput goal to 600 million tonnes and container to 20 million TEU. Xinhua reports that the port also plans to turn itself into a hub in northeast Asia and into one of the world's most competitive ports from just one of world's largest ports. ...
The European Commission published its long-awaited Transport Policy White Paper. It consists of a roadmap of 40 concrete initiatives for the next decade to build a competitive transport system that will increase mobility, remove major barriers in key areas and stimulate growth and employment. At the same time, the proposals aim to dramatically reduce Europe...
New Mangalore Port last week received a very large gas carrier (VLGC), m.t. Maharshi Bhardwaj, of 44,000 tonnes capacity, according to Exim News Service. The vessel docked at Berth No.12 and discharged liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) meant for distribution in Karnataka and neighbouring states. This was the largest LPG vessel handled at the Port, surpassing ...
In mid-May, two members of the Port of Rotterdam Authority Supervisory Board will be stepping down. They are Ad Scheepbouwer, chair, and René Smit, the supervisory director who was nominated for appointment by the Works Council. Merel van Vroonhoven, NS board member (Dutch railways), has been appointed to this latter position. Ad Scheepbouwer, cha...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
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